Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10012 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

reliev'drelieved

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 57 times in 46 works
Consistency: 91.9% (57 of 62)
Reach if approved: ~65 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: relieved
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 62 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (57 changes in 46 works, 91.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 57)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Again reliev'drelieved, all silent sat she long;
With rule
Again reliev'drelieved, all silent sat she long;
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
She pittied, and reliev'drelieved the Poor.
With rule
She pittied, and reliev'drelieved the Poor.
John Batchiler · The Virgins Pattern in the Life and Death of Susanna Perwich · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
The widow in distress he graciously reliev'drelieved,
With rule
The widow in distress he graciously reliev'drelieved,
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, no more doth his beſtowing of any outward mercies. If you had once reliev'drelieved a man in want, that does not binde you to do ſo alwaies: Or …
With rule
… it, no more doth his beſtowing of any outward mercies. If you had once reliev'drelieved a man in want, that does not binde you to do ſo alwaies: Or …
Matthew Mead · Appendix to Solomons Prescription for the Removal of Pestilence · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out in the View of his Hainous Sins, as ready to Deſpair, if not reliev'drelieved by the Hope, that there is Forgiveneſs with God. Lord, who can ſtand? that …
With rule
… out in the View of his Hainous Sins, as ready to Deſpair, if not reliev'drelieved by the Hope, that there is Forgiveneſs with God. Lord, who can ſtand? that …
John Shower · Gods Thoughts and Ways Above Ours · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
Is more than theirs, by whom to be reliev'drelieved,
With rule
Is more than theirs, by whom to be reliev'drelieved,
George Wither · A Considering Glass · Open in the reader
Printed
(By dying in your ſtead,) reliev'drelieved.
With rule
(By dying in your ſtead,) reliev'drelieved.
Richard Davis · Hymns on Several Subjects · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they come disturb'd, they depart in peace; they come oppressed with cares, they depart reliev'drelieved with content. O happy, thrice happy that soul to whom the Spirit of God …
With rule
… they come disturb'd, they depart in peace; they come oppressed with cares, they depart reliev'drelieved with content. O happy, thrice happy that soul to whom the Spirit of God …
William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 339 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.